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Re: Heavy write activity on first vacuum of fresh TOAST data



>>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:35 AM, in message <13267(dot)1197563721(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote: 
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
>> ... although to a naive user it's not clear what
>> is known at vacuum time that the INSERT into the empty table
>> couldn't have inferred.
> 
> The fact that the INSERT actually committed.
 
Fair enough.  I suppose that the possibility that of access before
the commit would preclude any optimization that would assume the
commit is more likely than a rollback, and do the extra work only in
the unusual case?
 
-Kevin
 





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